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Zugl.: Mainz, Univ., Diplomarbeit, 2005

This study's purpose is to determine whether the oft-reported variations in Navajo residence practices are simply responses to contingencies arising from environmental, demographic, and historical factors or if responses are conditioned in some way by Navajo ideas about the ordering of residential reality and bahaviour. It is based on field research among the Sheep Springs Navajo of northwestern New Mexico. Data about Navajo residential ideology are derived from these people's statements about residence sites and groups and from Navajo origin myths. This information is synthesized into a descriptive account of the content of Sheep Springs Navajos' residential ideology. They believe reality has a rational order. Humans are reasoning, goal-directed beings. Their behaviour is directed toward the propagation of the human species and the maintenance of human life from conception to the death of old age. These goals provide the basis for their views on the standards they think should order human behaviour and on the modes of behaviour they think best or at least acceptable in meeting these standards. Standards important to residence are not specific to it, that is, all persons should make a living and should help one another at all times in all places. It is only the procedures for behaviour that are specific to the residence context. For these people, residence is a matter of subsistence economics. Behavioural modes take into account conditions affecting people's access to livelihood resources and to manpower for exploiting and processing resources. Alternative, acceptable ways to locate residence sites and to aggregate persons into residence groups are based on these conditions. Since the amount of conformity existing between residence practices and behavioural modes gives an indication as to whether variant behaviour is in some way conditioned by ideology, comparisons are made between specific aspects of Sheep Springs Navajos' residence practices and their behavioural procedures. These are done using analytic units and variables derived from Navajo residential ideology rather than from anthropological considerations of social life. A further test is made of the agreement between ideology and practice by determining how much error in making predictions about variant behavioural forms can be reduced by using the ideologically-recognized conditions. These comparisons show very high proportions of Sheep Springs Navajos are following preferred or acceptable modes of residence behaviour. Because so many follow a preferred mode or one of the acceptable ones, the patterns of variant behaviour are not very pronounced and low reduction in prediction error is achieved by using conditions derived from their procedures. Many variations however tend to be in the direction predicted by these conditions. Variant residence practices do have some relationship to the acceptable behavioural alternatives, but there are contingencies to which practices respond that are not taken specifically into account in the alternative residential behaviour modes of the Sheep Spring Navajos. Some of these contingencies can still be dealt with by other mechanisms inherent in the structure of their ideas about ordering behaviour. Consequently, at the same time Sheep Springs Navajos' residential ideology and practices generally conform with each other, there is variation in their residence behaviour. / Arts, Faculty of / Anthropology, Department of / Graduate

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Thesis (B.A.)--Haverford College, Dept. of Spanish, 2004. / Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Washington. / Bibliography: l. [178]-181.

Thesis (M.A.)--Villanova University, 2009. / English Dept. Includes bibliographical references.

Bad Poetry and Other Short Stories is a collection of social, political, and religious commentary. The last three stories are also commentary from a non-fiction perspective.

Thesis (M.A (History of Art))--University of the Witwatersrand, Faculty of Humanities, School of Arts, 2016 / This research report explores how the eighteenth century Romantic Child Ideal influenced the representations of children created by artists Terry Kurgan and Mark Hipper, and subsequently what the responses to these works reveal about a relationship to and participation in the ideal within the context of South Africa in the late 1990s. Through a close reading of two seminal exhibitions, the group show Purity and Danger (1997) which featured Terry Kurgan’s photographs of her son, and Vicera (1998) Mark Hipper’s mixed media offering of child nudes, I analysed the manner in which these artists both perpetuate and subvert the Ideal through their specific visualisations of the child. / MT2017

The purpose of this experiment has been to complete a challenging thesis production in the style and technique of Open Theatre, utilizing imaginative production effects. The purpose was also to provide a valuable experience for those actors and technicians involved, meeting the standards and requirements of educational theatre. The experiment evolved from adapting, designing, directing, and producing a twelve scene cutting from Megan Terry's Viet Rock and twelve episodes from Jean-Claude van Italliets The Serpent. The study was culminated with a one-evening performance of The serpent and Viet Rock on August 10, 1971. The style and technique of Open Theatre seemed to be well accepted and fulfilled the requirements which the script demanded. The reaction of the audience seemed to indicate that the response sought by the Comp any was accomplished. The conclusion may also be drawn that this experimental production was successful not only as art, but also as an evening of entertainment.